Walking Dead new clip reveals a very different Negan

New table-read clip shows Negan and his wife, Lucille.

AMC has finally released the latest of their treats to tide us through the hiatus, with a table-read clip of the last of the bonus episodes coming our way in February.  The clip gives us our first look of “Here’s Negan” – the 6th episode in the extended season 10, created due to COVID restrictions delaying normal filming, and focuses on Negan’s past with his wife, Lucille.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s real-life wife, Hilarie Burton-Morgan, plays Lucille. She can be seen alongside Morgan, Lauren Cohan as Maggie, Melissa McBride as Carol and Josh McDermitt as the narrator in the clip posted exclusively by People.

The zoom call clip also reveals two previously unannounced cast members. Miles Mussenden (Spiderman: Homecoming, Marvel: Cloak & Dagger) and Rodney Rowland (The X-Files, Twin Peaks) are also part of the table-read, but it’s unclear which characters they play. However, given “Here’s Negan” is based on the comic volume of the same name, it’s very likely they play men that Negan befriends in his journey to try and save his wife.

The brief video reveals a lot in a short time, as we see Negan reminisce about his past. A bottle of homemade booze and a glance at his leather jacket seems to set Negan spiraling into his memories of the time just after the world turned.

We discover that Negan and Lucille are holed up in their basement, with a fridge full of chemo drugs, Lucille already having lost her hair, as they try to beat Lucille’s cancer despite the circumstances. A walker is attracted to the generator they are running for electricity, and Negan seems reluctant to deal with it.

It’s a very different Negan we see in the past, as Lucille tells him he needs to get better at killing them and reassures him, it’s not like killing a person or even an animal. The picture fully forms when Negan replies that it’s not that killing them bothers him; it’s that he’s afraid he’ll get used to it.

Of course, we know how used to killing Negan became and it’s exciting to see these two very different Negan’s will be bridged, what events shaped him, and what his relationship with Lucille was truly like.

It seems likely that the episode will also deal with Negan’s integration with the rest of the group due to Lauren Cohan and Melissa McBride’s presence in the episode read-through. There will no doubt still be tension over the fact Carol released Negan from prison in order to kill Alpha.

Maggie’s return to the group makes this an even bigger problem, and this topic was touched upon in the table-read from the first episode of the bonus 6, “Home Sweet Home.” There’s no doubt this is a topic that will carry through all the episodes and possibly into season 11.

The full episode will be on AMC at the start of April, with exclusive first play likely coming on AMC Premiere a few days beforehand. “Home Sweet Home” airs on AMC on Feb 28.